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Phil the Shelf

Series 26

Episode 6: Summers of Change

Duration: 28 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio Wales MWLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio Wales FM

Phil Rickman takes a psychedelic trip back to the summer of love in 1967 and a summer of change in 1989. Former Nirvana manager and rock music veteran, Danny Goldberg revisits his hazy memories of California in the 60s through his book 'In Search of the Lost Chord'. Dr Nicholas Campion, a specialist in the study of cosmology in culture, explains the 'Age of Aquarius' and counterculture in his book 'The New Age in the Modern West'. Meanwhile, in 1989, another summer of global flux before the collapse of the Berlin Wall and apartheid in South Africa, Patrick Harpur sets the scene for strange events in his novel 'The Good People'. Show less

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